International Handbook on the Economics of Tourism - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843761041 ISBN 13: 9781843761044

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Tourism economics is a rapidly expanding field of research and interest in the subject has been growing steadily over the past decade. As a field of study it is one of the small band of areas, such as energy and transport economics, that draws on, and applies, developments in general economics.

This highly accessible and comprehensive Handbook presents a cutting edge discussion of the state of tourism economics and its likely directions in future research. Leading researchers in the field explore a wide range of topics including: demand and forecasting, supply, transport, taxation and infrastructure, evaluation and application for policy-making. Each chapter includes a discussion of its relevance and importance to the tourism economics literature, an overview of its main contributions and themes, a critical evaluation of existing literature and an outline of issues for further conceptual and applied research.

Larry Dwyer and Peter Forsyth have assembled a fascinating Handbook that will be an invaluable and much welcomed reference book for tourism economics scholars and researchers at all levels of academe. General economics scholars will also find much to engage them within the book.

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Edited by Larry Dwyer, Qantas Professor of Travel and Tourism Economics, University of New South Wales, Australia and Peter Forsyth, Professor of Economics, Monash University, Australia

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1843761041
• ISBN 13: 9781843761044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 520
• Editor: Dwyer Larry, Forsyth Peter